Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI adapter and the product page for the iPad mini claims that the device is able to output 1080p images to televisions. But that may not be strictly true, according to some ...

With the 30-pin dock connector on the brink of extinction, you’re probably wandering how you’re going to hook your iOS devices up to your TV without the help of an Apple TV. Your old HDMI and VGA ...

The lightning connector can push uncompressed 1080p. The A6 cannot encode the screen output into 1080p h.264 in real time, so it pushes a lower-res stream to the adapter, which then turns it into raw, ...

Developers and enthusiasts continue to find new ways of running Doom on increasingly unusual hardware, the latest of which is an Apple HDMI adapter cable. This is only possible because the Lightning ...

Panic Software, purveyor of Mac OS X applications, was curious why its Apple's $49 Lightning Digital AV adapter wasn't performing very well. The picture quality was lacking, displaying odd video ...

Last week, we shared how the folks at Panic had pulled apart one of Apple's Lightning to HDMI digital AV adapters in an attempt to figure out why it didn't seem to output true 1080p HD video. To their ...

After unveiling their new Apple Lightning port earlier this week, Apple’s future plans for their new Lightning Port included on the new iPhone 5 and iPod Touch devices are still unclear. The ...

As a general rule of thumb, anything that has some kind of display output and a processor more beefy than an early 90s budget PC can run Doom just fine. As [John] AKA [Nyan Satan] demonstrates in a ...

At the time of writing, the Lightning port that Apple has equipped the iPhone and iPad with is being replaced with a USB-C port. However, devices equipped with Lightning ports are still in active use, ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...